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Entry: Live-blogging the GOP Debate Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/live_blogging_the_gop_debate#15800 Post contents: I don't like the kind of people supporting McCain - Kissinger, for starters. There are these scheming types who really want empire, and combined with the aforesaid McCain ego, there are no limits on the wars we can become trapped in, the way we are trapped in Iraq with "honor" keeping us there. I thought Will Shakespeare had long ago proved the folly of such men. To what avail? Do Republicans read anymore? I thought McCain's attacks on men who work for profit was shameful: the sly dig about having fired people being especially interesting. As though only a monster fires bad employees. Perhaps in McCain's world, lifetime military service is to be the new security. Romney seemed too witless to respond. He could have demolished his pretensions in an instant, but I suppose it would have implicated George Bush, the man who had a lot of trouble firing anyone. Interestingly, I believe McCain said that Bush had fired Rumsfeld. Were we supposed to know that? As to the discussion of the gold standard - I think that in spite of gold's performance on the world markets, the US public knows little about it. Of course Ron Paul's statements were all consistent with his principles. For some reason in the current debate this appeared "academic" - perhaps it was the effect of the "twink" moving things right along. At any rate the "twink" performed much better than most, allowing intelligent or revealing things to be said. I felt chilled by McCain and cheered by Paul. I got the impression that Romney is not really blood-thirsty, just a bit of a follower. His sons are not in uniform, which means he clearly does not consider our being in Iraq vital to the national interest. The lack of enthusiasm for the war says it all. I shudder to think of what might happen to stir it, so that such a situation is reversed. Perhaps President McCain would have some ideas.... Sent at: 2008 07 20